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Female Reporter Dons Fat Suit, Attends Fashion Show
A Look Back At Tyra's 500 Episodes
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Tue Nov 10
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02/26/09
Anyone want to take odds on how long it'll take to get to 1000?
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Because most of us who are in double-digit sizes? Just try to generally act like human beings and dress for some degree of comfort and style! We don't go out of our way to provoke the ultra-svelte fashion set and then act all butt-hurt when they wonder why we decided to put on some Muppets as rainment.
I'm in a size range that's skewing juuuust above traditional misses' sizes these days, so I feel your pain.
02/26/09
As someone who has spent considerably more time living in this size 22 body than you did in yours, I'd like to point out that perhaps your challenges resulted from such an awesome body being new to you. Despite sharing the same dimensions, I can sit in chairs and maneuver tight spaces quite easily! Its amazing!
But I know what you're talking about, because people stare at me on the street, too! ... but its mostly construction workers, and they go to great lengths to make clear that they like what they see. No one actually faints in fear or retreats in horror. Now THAT is shocking!
02/26/09
Why not follow a real overweight person around? Interview them and ask them how they are treated on a daily basis, and gawk at the people who gawk at them, instead of having a skinny person parade around wearing a fat suit? It's so offensive.
That said, one thing I find even more offensive than reporters wearing fat suits for posterity are actors and actresses who wear fat suits for movies. I remember reading an article with Gywnneth where she defended Shallow Hal by saying something along the lines of the movie is about him seeing her inner beauty, blah blah blah. Oh really? So you wearing a fat suit for a movie in which the character is constantly made fun of, wearing daisy dukes and texas-sized thongs, and eating Jack Black under the table - that's about inner beauty? Pff.
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Sigh.
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Oh, well, thank goodness then. I thought her reports were going to have to be mandatorily discredited purely on that account.
*breathes sigh of relief*
*rolls eyes hard*
*wonders why it's not the weekend yet*
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That would include not REPORTING on them like they are something to be exclaimed over.
I refuse to air stories like this. Absolutely disgraceful.
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And I LOVE Beth Ditto. I'd be staring at her in pure amazement and jealously. I love that she loves herself for exactly who she is.
02/26/09
So today I asked her, "Is your self esteem based completely on how thin you are?" She looked at me funny and laughed ... "Of course it is!" and then the other ladies proceeded to declare that their self-esteem MUST be dictated by their weight because (and this is a quote) "fat people can't be happy... I mean... they are FAT!"
::headdesk::
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But seriously, can we not relate to the experiences of other people unless we clownishly attempt to live out their wacky exotic lives in a fat suit/burqa/whatever? Jesus, I think these people missed a key stage of childhood emotional development.
02/26/09
I have had it up to here with the media pulling this stunt. The experience of someone who suffers from look-ism is fucking shocking. I can tell you from experience.
I lost 60 pounds between my second and third year of law school. Mostly due to changes on my own part (I started training for a marathon), but I have to tell you one thing: I was treated completely different by hiring partners and interviewers I had met a year earlier(I mean the same exact people).
This is so fucking wrong on so many levels.
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